Covid-19 crisis keeping most anglers ashore

As this report is being written, a lot of Southern California saltwater anglers have been forced to stay ashore due to regulations in place to help sluggish and protect against the spreading of the Covid-1 9 virus. I am sure the tales are similar or very similar in other coastal region, but I will use my home area of San Diego County as an example of the type of things that have been going on. First and foremost is that all sportfishing lands have temporarily terminated its operation and stopped guiding excursions. Emergency regulations have been previously aftermath private boaters who are also hearing measures being ordained that are keeping a lot of them off the spray as well.

The controls get changed rapidly but at the time of this writing the situation in San Diego County harbours is that start ramps and their parking areas are closed at Oceanside Harbor, Mission Bay and San Diego Bay. If you have a boat at a marina in Oceanside Harbor or San Diego Bay you can use your ship and take it out fishing. If you are at a dock in Mission Bay you cannot make your ship out fishing as the totality of the refuge is currently closed to boating. I advocate you contact the Harbor Police in San Diego Bay, the Harbor Police in Oceanside and the Mission Bay Lifeguard Patrol in Mission Bay to get the very latest information before you plan on using your private boat.

With a lot of ships off the water and very few people out fishing, fish reports have been hard to come by but there have been a few private boaters venturing out and doing some fishing. Prior to the opening of the sportboats being restrain from loping expeditions there is indeed good number of 40 to 120 pound bluefin tuna biting for boats fishing the offshore sprays outside of Punta Colnett. There have also been good numbers of bluefin showing in oceans within 30 miles or so of Point Loma but those fish had still not been bite as well as the fish that were biting off Punta Colnett.

The past weekend ascertained a few private boaters out doing some offshore fish and a couple of Skippers reported meeting bluefin below Los Coronado Islands in areas of the 425 Bank. There were also a couple of reports about bluefin showing in an area ranging from the field outside of the middle-of-the-road part of the 9 Mile Bank on out to the area to the north of the 224 Spot at the upper extremity of the Kidney Bank. Good news is that there were a few biting bluefin to be found in these more neighbourhood offshore countries over the past weekend. Slow trolled sardines and gradual trolled mackerel were working well when trolled around the groups of breaking bluefin. Poppers, Flat Fall jigs, Colt Snipers, skin-deep cast-iron, flylined mackerel and flylined sardines have been previously created some bluefin action.

Most of the rest of the recent fish reports have been from private boaters looking for yellowtail around La Jolla and that have been trying for halibut off Imperial Beach. The yellowtail fishing at La Jolla seemed pretty slow over the past weekend but there were some good numbers of rockfish biting.

The halibut fishing was reported to be on the quiet side of things over the weekend but one of the Skippers who was reporting had concluded good halibut fishing in the area earlier in the week. Best bet has been to drift sardines in about 50 hoofs of irrigate in the area outside of the Imperial Beach Pier.

Skippers fishing hard-bitten bottom areas into the north and the northwest of North Island continue to find good fishing for an assortment of rockfish. A good degree wander continues to be in 25 to 55 grasps of liquid. The lower dissolve of the 9 Mile Bank has also been fertile for rockfish while fish in the 60 to 80 measure magnitudes while on the Mexico side of the border.

These are the recent reports that I have been able to gather from the few private boats that have been going out fishing. I almost always encourage people to go fishing but I do not want these reports to encourage anyone to make their boat out and go fishing in the midst of the Covid-1 9 crisis. My feeling is that on numerous private boats it would be very difficult to adhere to the “social distance” guidelines of keeping 6 feet away from other people.

I am blest to have a home-office and have been staying home as much as possible and have not left home in 12 daytimes. I foster you to stay home as much as your situation allows and to deviate on the side of caution in your decision making. Be safe, stand health and I hope to see you back out on the sea when the Covid-1 9 crisis is over. I pray that is very soon!

Bob Vanian is the voice, columnist and researcher of the San Diego-based internet fish report service announced 976 -Bite which can be found at www. 976 bite.com. Vanian also provides anglers with a personal fish report service over the telephone at 619 -2 26 -8 218. He ever welcomes your fish reports at that same phone number or at bob9 76 morsel @aol. com

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